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Vanessabug


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SÃO PAULO, Brazil The waiting room at Pérola Byington Hospital resembles a small day care center many days. Young girls play on the cold tile floors or rock hyperactively in plastic chairs, while their mothers stare pensively at the red digital readout on a wall, signaling their place in line.

But this is a womens health clinic specializing in treating victims of sexual violence. Of the 15 such cases the hospital averages each day, nearly half involve children under 12.

While much of Brazil has been riled by the case of a 9-year-old girl who aborted twins this month after claiming her stepfather raped her, her ordeal was an all too familiar one at the clinic.

The girls story of rape and pregnancy at such a young age seemingly caught the nation off guard, reviving a tense debate over reproductive rights in a country with more Catholics than any other. But doctors, clinic workers and other experts say her case is symptomatic of a widespread problem of sexual abuse of under-age girls one that has long been neglected and may be getting worse.

Unfortunately, this is becoming more and more common, said Daniela Pedroso, a psychologist who has worked here for 11 years.

Weighing just 79 pounds and barely four feet tall, the 9-year-old girl, from Alagoinha, a town in the northeast, underwent an abortion when she was 15 weeks pregnant at one of the 55 centers authorized to perform the procedure in Brazil. Abortion is legal here only in cases of rape or when the mothers life is at risk.

article continued at  :) : http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/world/americas/28brazil.html?_r=1


what are your feelings about abortion?
do they change under the circumstances of a young girl being raped by her stepfather?



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I would never get an abortion because it is against my religion and my personal principles. BUt i know that not everyone is like me. There are non christians and non believers in this world.

So i think that in cases like rape, maybe it should be permissible, because like I said a long time ago, no woman should ever have to carry a pregnancy to term if it is the result of a scarring event like rape. It's a private decision, ultimately, it's up to her.



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Two wrongs don't make a right. Clean up the streets of people like this and perserve life.

-- Edited by Bonemail-(Christophe K) on Friday 15th of May 2009 05:58:19 PM

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"do they change under the circumstances of a young girl being raped by her stepfather?"
No, because then the child suffers because of someone elses decision. it doesnt mean the child doesnt have a right to live.

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Yes, I think the circumstances change big time. Because this girl had no choice in the matter. Any other time I think that women should take the responsibility and repercussions of their actions

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DaisyVo1212 wrote:

I would never get an abortion because it is against my religion and my personal principles. BUt i know that not everyone is like me. There are non christians and non believers in this world.

So i think that in cases like rape, maybe it should be permissible, because like I said a long time ago, no woman should ever have to carry a pregnancy to term if it is the result of a scarring event like rape. It's a private decision, ultimately, it's up to her.


i am in no way arguing in favor of abortion but i DO want to point out that not ALL christians are against abortion.

 



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i do see the argument about abortion and being for it or against it, but i see another issue that is somewhat bigger than that in this story...several girls are being sexually abused. what are they going to do about that? shouldn't that be a huge priority? frankly, if that was taken care of then she wouldn't have had to have an abortion in the first place. i'm not saying that it would never happen ever again, but i think something should be done to help these poor girls before they do get pregnant and mentally, emotionally and physically scared for life.

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